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Barack Obama

News about Barack Obama, 44th US president who served from 20 January 2009 to 20 January 2017

April 2024

  • Barack Obama greets Joe Biden at a fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York last month.

    Presidents assemble: Obama can reach parts of Democratic base Biden can’t

    Biden’s charismatic former boss and rival appeared in a show of unity alongside Bill Clinton, who despite a problematic legacy still has a campaign role to play too

March 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    Biden and Trump shift to new phase of urgent fundraising in 2024 US election

    Biden raises $26m at New York event with Obama and Clinton while Trump’s campaign claims it will raise $33m at a Florida event
  • Joe Biden,Barack Obama,Bill Clinton<br>President Joe Biden, center, and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Biden campaign raises $25m ‘money bomb’ at event with Obama and Clinton

    Chuck Schumer and Lizzo made appearances before the presidents talked onstage in event that widens fundraising lead over Trump

    • Barack Obama drops in on Rishi Sunak on London trip

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – as it happened

    • Trump confuses Obama for Biden again at Virginia rally speech

December 2023

  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week
    Digested Week: New York’s Christmas music is no fairytale for me

    Emma Brockes
    Give me Wham! and Wizzard over Perry Como and Frank Sinatra, and I’m also sad my children can’t be nativity donkeys

November 2023

  • Amy Carter walks past the casket of her mother, former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, after speaking at a tribute service in Atlanta on 28 November.

    Jimmy Carter, Biden and Clintons pay tribute at Rosalynn Carter memorial

    Jimmy Carter, 99, left hospice care at home for service for his late wife, but Trump, Obama and Bush did not attend

October 2023

  • Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of Shimon Peres in September 2016.

    Obama criticizes Israel’s decision to cut off food and water to Gaza

    Ex-president says decision threatens to worsen humanitarian crisis, undermine peace effort and erode support for Israel

September 2023

  • A white man with rakish brown hair, a navy blazer and a blue-and-white gingham shirt with no tie, laughs with his eyes closed as he throws up both palms. He appears to be on a stage, in front of a background of large, unreadable, blue and pink neon letters.

    From prime time to lurid tales in a shed: the rapid descent of Tucker Carlson

  • Portrait of Bettina Love

    ‘Obama’s education legacy needs to be questioned’: the scholar fighting for reparations for Black students

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Even for Tucker Carlson, his supposed Obama sex exposé was ridiculous

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Joe Biden and Barack Obama at a rally for Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman in November last year.

    Democrats worried over Biden chances are ‘bedwetters’, ex-Obama adviser says

August 2023

  • Joe Wurzelbacher<br>FILE - Joe Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber," signs autographs after appearing at a rally with Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio, Oct. 29, 2008. Wurzelbacher, who was thrust into the political spotlight as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his economic policies during the 2008 presidential campaign, has died, his son said Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. He was 49. His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, said his father died Sunday, Aug. 27, in Wisconsin after a long illness. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)

    ‘Joe the Plumber’, who challenged Obama on taxes in 2008, dies aged 49

    Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, famous for arguing with Barack Obama on the campaign trail, died of pancreatic cancer
  • A person walks in the sand Dunes as heavy surf rolls onto the south shore of Martha's Vineyard island, as Tropical Storm Henri approaches the New England coast in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, U.S., August 22, 2021. John Segar via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    Death of Obama’s chef ruled accidental drowning in Martha’s Vineyard

    Tafari Campbell, 45, was pulled from a tidal inlet near the Edgartown after he went missing while paddleboarding

    • ‘Shameful’ Nicolas Sarkozy under fire for defending Putin

    • Data says Americans are becoming more conservative. What’s going on?

      Jill Filipovic

    • Obama reportedly warns Biden over strength of Trump 2024 challenge

July 2023

  • A person walks in the sand Dunes as heavy surf rolls onto the south shore of Martha's Vineyard island, as Tropical Storm Henri approaches the New England coast in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, U.S., August 22, 2021.

    Obama’s personal chef dies while paddleboarding off Martha’s Vineyard

  • A display at a store during a spring carnival in Beijing in May.

    US-China cultural exchange at low point after tensions and Covid, data shows

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